2. Keanu Reeves as Klaatu. Honestly, when I heard it was him playing the enigmatic alien, I thought: Perfect.

3. John Cleese is in this, in the apparently not-comedic role of “Professor Barnhardt.” Maybe he invented a funny walk to defeat the aliens?

4. Director Scott Derrickson last film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, was a far more thoughtful and considered approach to a subgenre — the possessed-by-Satan horror movie — than we typically see. So I’m hoping that bodes well for this film, and that we’ll get a far more thoughtful and considered alien-invasion movie.

5. There’s that line, in the TV commercial, where Kathy Bates says something like, “What do you want with our planet?” And Keanu Reeves replies, half mystified and half peeved, “Your planet?” I’d like to think, because of the global-warming, heal-the-planet theme, that that’s gonna resolve into a Native American concept of eschewing the idea of ownership of the Earth, not into a “the aliens have been here for millions of years and consider this their planet.”

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